Ulrik Brask

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Som en reaktion på Sony’s støtte til USA’s såkaldte ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) har det internationale hackerfællesskab Anonymous igen angrebet Sony. Både Sony Pictures website og facebook side blev angrebet og Anonymous hævder at have skaffet sig administrator adgang til Sony’s servere.

En afdeling af det internationale hackerfællesskab kendt som Anonymous anoncerer angreb mod nynazister og offentliggør mængder af e-mail, navne og fotografier af nazister.

 

We are anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

I ugen mellem jul og nytår har Anonymous lagt i ovnen til en række hacking aktioner, de første har allerede fået den særlige julestemning at mærke. Stratfor Global Intelligence Service blev således hacket juleaften. Deres website blev lagt ned og ‘defaced’, deres kundekartotek blev kopieret, ligesom tusindevis af deres e-mail og kreditkort informationer blev det. Og nu er 1 million $ på vej, som anonyme donationer, til bl.a. Røde Kors, Save the Children og CARE. Af kundekartoteket kan man bl.a. se at Bank of America, US Defence Dept., Lockheed Martin og Los Alamos National Laboratory er blandt kunderne hos Statfor Global. Det meste af weekenden var meddelelsen: “Marry Lulzxmas! Are you ready for a week of mayhem?” eneste indhold på sikkerhedsfirmaets hjemmeside. Og mandag (idag) er hjemmesiden stadig nede og indeholder kun en besked om at siden er under vedligeholdelse.

Greetings, Citizens of the World,
The internet is in danger of an oppressive new law that will allow the Federal Government of the United States to shut down, arrest, fine and prosecute any website and it’s operator(s) at the behest of corporations who can and do stand to profit from weaponized censorship. The goal of the so-called ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ SOPA is to empower litigious U.S. corporations to police the internet, with the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner. SOPA tramples civil rights laws, fair use, freedom of press and freedom of speech. Under SOPA an average person could be arrested, fined, sued and spend time in a federal prison for so little as uploading a video to YouTube or even linking to one. This law further proves the reality of corporate rule and totalitarianism.

Recently the vote on SOPA was delayed until early 2012 due to dissenting influence and the backlash of the immense number of core internet services that this bill targets. In a democracy this should be enough to defeat the bill, however, in the U.S. it only means that the vote will get delayed until the media loses interest and the backing corporate lobbyists have enough time to “influence” [read: bribe] the vote to their favour. However, it has been clandestinely moved forward in an attempt to fast track the law under the radar of a culture drunk on materialistic obsession — as such The House Judiciary Committee is reconvening on the 21st of December. In short, we were lied to.

While it was the intent to give people little time to react, our reaction will not be little. This oligarchy rules without democracy, consent or support; it fears us, it fears protesters, it fears the solidarity of the Occupy Movement, it fears the 99%, it fears YOU. The Federal Government currently perches on the narrow brink of collapse, lets give it a nice hard push. We simply do not need or want the future they’re trying to sell us. No government can exist that we, the people, refuse to support. It’s time to revoke that consent. It’s time to spread the message of dissent everywhere. Show those who have, and continue to, grant themselves nearly unlimited power how great the force is that rises up en masse to oppose their tyranny.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We are everyone.
We are everywhere.
We are you.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.

This is our world, and we’re taking it back.

Expect us.

Så er der mindre end et år til præsidentvalget i USA. Og valgkampen er i gang.